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Acts of Union: Mixed Marriage in Modern Ireland

联合法案：现代爱尔兰的异族通婚

基本信息

批准号：
MR/T043954/1
负责人：
ALISON GARDEN
金额：
$ 93.91万
依托单位：
Queen's University Belfast
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Fellowship
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2020 至无数据
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR%2FT043954%2F1
关键词：
Acts Union Mixed Marriage Modern

项目摘要

'Do you know the Greek word endogamein? It means to marry within the tribe. And the word exogamein means to marry outside the tribe. And you don't cross those borders casually - both sides get very angry'. So claims Jimmy Jack, a character in Brian Friel's play Translations, first performed in 1980, in a thinly veiled warning about an Irish woman's relationship with an English soldier. Translations is an example of a 'love across the divide' story: a type of romance narrative that depicts Ireland's difficult relationship with Britain as a (sexually) frustrated and dangerous romance between lovers from 'opposing sides'. These 'national romance' stories have an incredibly long history stretching back to the Anglo-Norman colonisation of Ireland in the twelfth century. In fact, the relationship between Britain and Ireland has often been described as a marriage, with Ireland the wife.Such symbolism is all very well but what was life like for those involved in actual 'mixed marriages', or 'mixed relationships', where one partner was Catholic and one Protestant, or one Nationalist and the other Unionist? How many couples were there involved in such mixed relationships and were these sorts of unions less likely to happen at particular times in Ireland's history, such as during the War of Independence, or the Troubles? What happened to their children? What did romantic relationships between members of the nationalist community and the overseas military look like? These are the sorts of questions that will drive this research project. Although 'mixed marriage' in an Irish context is understood to mean between a Catholic and Protestant, this project will also touch upon relationships between people of different races; and the changing patterns of love and marriage with regards to LGBTQIA+ rights and increasing migration to Ireland in the latter decades of the twentieth century. The key academic outputs from this project are an interdisciplinary, co-authored monograph, a series of articles, a major international conference and a co-edited collection.This robust programme of academic research will be complemented by an extensive public engagement and impact strategy. Planned events and activities include: the commissioning and production of a new piece of theatre based on the project's findings, which will be performed in Belfast, Dublin, Derry and Cork; a public film series; an exhibition with public talks by project team members; and a short documentary film. The public will be kept informed about the project's progress through a dedicated website and social media presence.Marrying across political and/or religious divides has often been a contentious issue; especially in Ireland, where the stakes of these allegiances are high. Despite the relative prevalence of the phenomenon and the vital insight that studying these marriage patterns could give us into an extraordinarily turbulent period in Irish and British history, there has been very limited research on this subject. Taking an interdisciplinary approach that draws together historical, cultural and literary research, this project will produce the first sustained engagement with 'mixed marriage', or 'Love across the Divide' across the island of Ireland in the twentieth century. It will explicate how the narratives told about Irish culture, politics and society intersect with the lived experience of Irish people.There is an apocryphal joke that Irish society, especially in Northern Ireland, is so divided between its putative 'two communities' that even a Jewish person would be asked whether they were a 'Catholic Jew or a Protestant Jew'. This project will turn that fallacy on its head by exploring the stories of those who lived their lives beyond this narrow binary. As such, it will complicate and enrich our understanding of the relationship between Britain and Ireland, and the fabric of Irish society itself.

“你知道希腊词endgamein吗？”这意味着在部落内结婚。 exogamein这个词的意思是与部落之外的人结婚。而且你不会随意跨越这些边界——双方都会非常生气。”布赖恩·弗里尔 (Brian Friel) 于 1980 年首次演出的戏剧《翻译》中的角色吉米·杰克 (Jimmy Jack) 如此声称，对一名爱尔兰妇女与一名英国士兵的关系提出了不加掩饰的警告。《翻译》是“跨越鸿沟的爱情”故事的一个例子：一种浪漫叙事，将爱尔兰与英国的困难关系描述为“对立双方”恋人之间的（性）受挫和危险的浪漫关系。这些“民族浪漫”故事有着极其悠久的历史，可以追溯到十二世纪盎格鲁-诺曼人对爱尔兰的殖民统治。事实上，英国和爱尔兰之间的关系经常被描述为一种婚姻，爱尔兰为妻子。这种象征意义很好，但对于那些参与实际“异族通婚”或“混合关系”的人来说，生活是什么样的，其中一个伴侣是天主教徒，一个是新教徒，或者一个是民族主义者，另一个是统一主义者？有多少对夫妇处于这种混合关系中？在爱尔兰历史上的特定时期，例如独立战争或动乱期间，这种结合的可能性较小吗？他们的孩子怎么了？民族主义社区成员与海外军队之间的浪漫关系是什么样的？这些问题将推动这个研究项目。虽然爱尔兰语中的“异族通婚”被理解为天主教徒和新教徒之间的婚姻，但该项目也将涉及不同种族之间的关系；二十世纪后几十年，随着 LGBTQIA+ 权利的变化，以及越来越多的移民到爱尔兰，爱情和婚姻模式也发生了变化。该项目的主要学术成果是一本跨学科、共同撰写的专着、一系列文章、一次大型国际会议和共同编辑的文集。这一强大的学术研究计划将得到广泛的公众参与和影响战略的补充。计划的活动包括：根据该项目的发现调试和制作一个新的剧院，该剧院将在贝尔法斯特、都柏林、德里和科克演出；公共电影系列；由项目团队成员进行公开演讲的展览；和一部纪录片短片。公众将通过专门的网站和社交媒体随时了解该项目的进展情况。跨越政治和/或宗教分歧的婚姻往往是一个有争议的问题；尤其是在爱尔兰，这些效忠的风险很高。尽管这种现象相对普遍，而且研究这些婚姻模式可能会让我们进入爱尔兰和英国历史上一个异常动荡的时期，但对此主题的研究非常有限。该项目采用跨学科方法，将历史、文化和文学研究结合在一起，将在二十世纪爱尔兰岛首次持续参与“异族通婚”或“跨越鸿沟的爱”。它将解释关于爱尔兰文化、政治和社会的叙述如何与爱尔兰人民的生活经历相交叉。有一个杜撰的笑话，爱尔兰社会，特别是北爱尔兰，在其假定的“两个社区”之间是如此分裂，以至于即使是犹太人也会被问到他们是“天主教犹太人还是新教犹太人”。这个项目将通过探索那些超越这种狭隘二元生活的人的故事来扭转这种谬论。因此，它将复杂化并丰富我们对英国和爱尔兰之间的关系以及爱尔兰社会本身结构的理解。